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A) William Shakespeare B) Thomas Jefferson C) John Adams D) Samuel Clemens
A) California B) New York C) Missouri D) Texas
A) Moby Dick B) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn C) Pride and Prejudice D) The Great Gatsby
A) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer B) The Innocents Abroad C) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court D) Life on the Mississippi
A) 1900 B) 1876 C) 1850 D) 1885
A) The Prince and the Pauper B) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer C) Huckleberry Finn D) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A) I have a dream. B) The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. C) To be or not to be, that is the question. D) All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
A) Doctor B) Lawyer C) Riverboat Pilot D) Farmer
A) Louisa May Alcott B) Emily Dickinson C) Olivia Langdon D) Harriet Beecher Stowe
A) Joe Harper B) Tom Blankenship C) Huck Finn D) Ben Rogers
A) 1900 B) 1910 C) 1930 D) 1920
A) Los Angeles, California B) New York City, New York C) Hartford, Connecticut D) Chicago, Illinois
A) 1876 B) 1865 C) 1884 D) 1894
A) Paige Compositor B) Typewriter C) Printing press D) Steamboat engine
A) Grant Marsh B) Orion Clemens C) Henry Huttleston Rogers D) Charles Dudley Warner
A) Pleasant Hannibal Clemens B) Orion Clemens C) Benjamin Clemens D) Henry Clemens
A) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer B) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court C) Pudd'nhead Wilson D) King Leopold's Soliloquy
A) World War I B) The Civil War C) The Revolutionary War D) The Spanish-American War
A) Hannibal Clipper B) Mississippi Queen C) Nevada Belle D) A. B. Chambers
A) American Anti-Imperialist League B) Society for Psychical Research C) Virginia City Territorial Enterprise D) International Typographical Union
A) Colonialism B) Heart attack C) Explosion D) Pneumonia
A) 1870 B) 1867 C) 1861 D) 1864
A) The Mormon community in Salt Lake City B) New York C) A mining town in Virginia D) San Francisco
A) Journalist at Territorial Enterprise B) Miner on the Comstock Lode C) Stagecoach driver D) Teacher
A) Charles Langdon B) Samuel Clemens C) Dan DeQuille D) Mark Twain
A) "The Innocents Abroad" B) "Letter From Carson – re: Joe Goodman; party at Gov. Johnson's; music" C) "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" D) "Roughing It"
A) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer B) Roughing It C) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn D) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A) His experiences in Angels Camp, California B) A Mediterranean cruise C) His journey across the Great Plains D) A trip to Hawaii
A) The Saturday Press B) Territorial Enterprise C) Sacramento Union D) New-York Tribune
A) Reporter B) Editor C) Photographer D) Travel agent
A) Hartford, Connecticut B) New York City C) Elmira, New York D) Buffalo, New York
A) Frederick Douglass B) Sojourner Truth C) W.E.B. Du Bois D) Harriet Tubman
A) Paige typesetting machine B) History trivia game C) Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments D) Self-pasting scrapbook
A) Nikola Tesla B) George Westinghouse C) Alexander Graham Bell D) Thomas Edison
A) Honolulu, Hawaii B) Fiji C) New Zealand D) Australia
A) Life on the Mississippi B) The Innocents Abroad C) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court D) Following the Equator
A) Dorothy Quick B) Ina Coolbrith C) George Washington Cable D) Henry Rogers
A) Battle of Manila Bay B) Moro Crater Massacre C) Siege of Baler D) Bataan Death March
A) Charles L. Webster B) Henry Huttleston Rogers C) Thomas Lounsbury D) Ulysses S. Grant
A) Labor rights. B) Women's suffrage. C) Prohibition. D) Abolition of slavery.
A) $471,000 B) $750,000 C) $600,000 D) $300,000
A) Tulane University B) Buffalo & Erie County Public Library C) St. Louis Mercantile Library D) Newberry Library
A) Susy B) Jean C) Livy D) Clara
A) Harper's Bazaar B) Scribner's Magazine C) The Atlantic Monthly D) Collier's Weekly
A) The American Publishing Company B) Charles L. Webster and Company C) The Ash Ranch Press D) Harper & Brothers
A) 'It was a gift from Captain Sellers himself.' B) 'He gave me permission to use it.' C) 'I created it independently without any influence.' D) 'I confiscated the ancient mariner's discarded one.'
A) Marat B) Danton C) Louis XVI D) Robespierre
A) 'Josh' B) 'John Snook' C) 'Sieur Louis de Conte' D) 'Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass'
A) The New York Saturday Press B) The San Francisco Alta California C) The Territorial Enterprise D) The Virginia Daily Union
A) Baptist B) Catholic C) Presbyterian D) Methodist
A) 1907 B) 1884 C) 1895 D) 1916
A) Four B) Two C) One D) Three
A) Atlantic Monthly B) The Century Magazine C) Harper's Magazine D) Scribner's Magazine
A) On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History B) Sartor Resartus C) The Life of John Sterling D) French Revolution
A) the Congo Free State B) Egypt C) South Africa D) India
A) "Der Zauber des Englischen" B) "Die Freude der Italienischen Sprache" C) "Das Wunder der Französischen Sprache" D) "Die Schrecken der Deutschen Sprache"
A) Republican B) Libertarian C) Independent D) Democratic
A) Writing light, humorous verse B) Creating scientific literature C) Writing political essays D) Chronicling historical events
A) 1910 B) 1908 C) 1904 D) 1906
A) Creating public domain status for older works B) Extending copyright protection to the author's lifetime plus 50 years. C) Implementing stricter plagiarism laws D) Reducing taxes on authors' incomes
A) Jane Austen B) George Eliot C) James Fenimore Cooper D) Robert Louis Stevenson
A) Sansculotte B) Girondin C) Bourbon D) Jacobin
A) Laissez faire B) Socialism C) Protectionism D) Keynesian economics
A) Shakespeare Society, Literary Lions B) Poets' Circle, Humorists' Haven C) Authors' Club, Beefsteak Club, Vagabonds D) Dramatists Guild, Comedy Enthusiasts
A) Using complex, archaic language B) Writing in a formal, academic tone C) Focusing solely on abstract themes D) Rendering colloquial speech
A) New York Saturday Press B) Virginia Daily Union C) San Francisco Alta California D) Sacramento Union
A) president B) treasurer C) vice-president D) secretary
A) 'John Snook' B) 'Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass' C) 'Josh' D) 'Sieur Louis de Conte'
A) Imperial College London B) Cambridge University C) Oxford University D) University of London
A) Territorial Enterprise B) Alta California C) Quaker City D) Ajax
A) Nevada Lodge No. 75 B) St. Louis Lodge No. 50 C) Missouri Lodge No. 100 D) Polar Star Lodge No. 79 A.F.&A.M.
A) The American Publishing Company B) Harper & Brothers C) Charles L. Webster and Company D) Pennyroyal Press
A) As a land of peace and prosperity. B) As a paradise untouched by human corruption. C) As a place devoid of any cultural significance. D) As an extraordinary country visited by the sun, where only man is vile.
A) Hartford House B) Stormfield C) Buffalo Estate D) Elmira Manor
A) Sansculottes B) Jacobins C) Girondins D) Royalists
A) Oxford University B) Yale University C) Harvard University D) Princeton University
A) Enthusiastic B) Critical C) Indifferent D) Supportive
A) New York Press Society B) Sagebrush School C) Virginia City Writers D) Silver-tongued Orators
A) Republicans B) Mugwumps C) Independents D) Democrats
A) Socialist B) Primarily liberal C) Centrist D) More conservative than liberal
A) Samuel Clemens himself before adopting it B) Captain Isaiah Sellers C) A fictional character created by Mark Twain D) An anonymous journalist from New Orleans
A) Social commentary through role reversal B) Adventure and exploration C) Friendship and loyalty D) Travel and discovery
A) 2000 B) 1990 C) 1980 D) 2010
A) Military conquest B) Religious reform C) Agriculture D) Technology
A) New York Saturday Press B) The Atlantic Monthly C) San Francisco Alta California D) Virginia Daily Union
A) Faded Page (Canada) B) LibriVox C) Project Gutenberg D) Standard Ebooks
A) They were written in an unknown language B) Many were lost or not recorded C) They were never spoken publicly D) They were all destroyed by critics
A) A Presbyterian Church B) A hospital C) A library D) A school
A) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court B) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn C) Pudd'nhead Wilson D) The Mysterious Stranger
A) Freedom of speech B) Civil liberties C) Personal political rights D) Economic freedoms
A) 'Tom Sawyer' B) 'Life on the Mississippi' C) 'The Prince and the Pauper' D) 'Huckleberry Finn'
A) Vienna, Austria B) Sanna, Sweden C) London, England D) Belgravia, London |